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StereographEntry/Object ID
2023.055.3.0282Description
A black and white stereograph. Image is an aerial view of Constantinople. Above the image "T406 (Star)" is printed, below the image "V24111T Beautiful Constantinople, City of Two Continents - Asia in Distance to the Northeast (Right.)" is printed, to the left of the image "Keystone View Company Copyrighted, Underwood & Underwood Inc. Manufacturers MADE IN U.S.A. Publishers" is printed, to the right of the image "Meadville, Pa., New York, N. Y., Chicago, Ill., London, England." is printed. On the reverse the following is printed:
V24111
BEAUTIFUL CONSTANTINOPLE, CITY OF TWO CONTINENTS
The Asiatic city, known as Scutari, is out of sight northeast across the Bosphorus to the right. From the Bosphorus, the Golden Horn extends to the left before us, dividing Constantinople proper between the older and conservative Moslem city of Stamboul, were we now are, and the more European sections beyond. Of these latter, Galata, the old Genoese city, extends upward from the far end of the bridge, and Pera, the new city of the European colony, is out of sight to the left. Stamboul has been the seat of the Turkish government. These togehter are Constantinople.
The regions near the Galata shore are as picturequely disreputable and dangerous as anything to be found in all Europe. Yet the best of the city's population also surges through these thoroughfares. The principal French, German, Greek, Italian, Armenian and Persian business houses are near the end of the bride or farther up the hillside. There are the foreign consulates, the Exchange, warehouses, churches, convents and hospitals.
In Pera live the ambassadors, the consults and foreign officials. English and American shops, hotels and restaurants line the streets.
Constantinople's geographical position at the doorway between Europe and Asia has made it one of the most cosmopolitan cities of the world and a remendous business center. Quantities of goods come here by caravan on the backs of donkeys and pack horses. Vessels come from the Black Sea port and Mediterraanean ports, from western and northern Europe, America and the far East. Constantinoplealso has railway communication with Europe and, from, Scutari, across the Bosphorus, with Damascus and all western Asia.
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